Too valuable to have just a simple city tour…
There are 320 hectares of living historical monuments built in the 16th and 17th century by the finest artists of the world with the original architectonical plans of Michael Angelo, Vigñola, Herrera, Bramante, Guerra, Bermini, Becerra, etc. So much value that Quito won its “heritage” title against Rome!
Quito is not just spectacular buildings and plazas built on top of Inca walls; FlashTravel will show you golden baroque pulpits carved by Juan Bautista Menacho which are the finest of the 17th century and no one can compete with the golden altarpieces by Bernardo de Legarda in the 18th century. Fine Moorish paneling surrounded with miraculous statuary carved on wood by Diego de Robles Caspicara and Father Carlos in the models of the Spanish masters Martinez Montañez and Pedro de Mena are bounded with paintings of the most famous American artists like Miguel de Santiago, Nicolas Goríbar and Pedro Bedón based on the engravings of Rubens and lessons of Francisco de Zurbarán and Bernardo Bitti.
Father Juan de Velasco the greatest Jesuit historian wrote in his 18th century book Modern History of Quito Kingdom :” Just a few have become renowned and of great name. Among the old ones one took the aclamations of all, in the painting Miguel de Santiago pal of Ticiano and Micheal Angelo, whose works were seen with admiration in Rome as he matched Velasquez and exceeded Murillo. In more recent times Andrés Moral ... I knew several Indians and mestisos, leaders in Art; but no one like Bernardo de Legarda, monstrous talent and ability for everything. Its monumental staruary I dare to say that can be put without fear in competition with the rarest of Europe”.
FlashTravel has specially created various routes to focus all the wealth Quito holds.
Let our art specialists lead you through the most important Religious Art Museums of America full of masterpieces of Miguel de Santiago, Nicolas Goríbar, Andres Sanchez Gualpe Mateo Mexia just to mention a few painters and Caspicara, Legarda, Brother Carlos, Jose Olmos “Pampite” or Menacho. 
15 minutes north of the capital City is found the new monument to the French Geodesic Expedition that in 1736 measured a circumference arch of earth in order to determine its shape and exact size. Currently the monument contains a complete ethnographic museum about the Indian cultures of Ecuador with more than 20 different groups represented. Clients will be having also a visit to the Solar Theme Park where representations of the main pre-Inca monuments showing its relationship to astronomy are displayed. Also there is a typical house of the High Andes with all its utensils and pets there is also a collection of objects gathered with the groups of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The visit includes a commemorative diploma of having crossed the Equatorial line.
The collection displays from the arrowheads of "El Inga" (10.000 a. C.) up to the Inca vessels (from 1.437 to 1.534 d. C.), the museum shows cultures such as La Tolita (500 to. C. Until 500 d. C.) Who molded ceramics in sea sand with strong mythological motives among those, they emphasized the puma. All the gold and platinum in the museum belong to this culture. We will be able also to appreciate the finest carvings in colorful painted wood by the Quiteño School of Arts dating from XVI century to the XVIII century, as well as linens of the most important America painters of this period.
